Capturing logcat on android x86

Question

iam running android 2.2 (froyo) on a x-86 based PC. How can I capture a logcat on the terminal console and save it to any specific location within the android, say notepad ? Whats is the keyboard command for it ?

What are the other generic keyboard shortcuts for android x-86?

Answer 1

adb logcat > logcat.txt

If you have an emulator and a device and you want to extract the logcat from the device, then:

adb -d logcat > logcat.txt

Type adb help for a list of the commands.

Answer 2

adb tool is not present for android x86